Without Sanctuary Lynching Photography in America

"Given the care that the publishers have devoted to the selection of photographs and the production of this volume--WITHOUT SANCTUARY is among the most beautifully made books I've come across--it's a shame that the accompanying essays by historian Leon Litwak and New Yorker writer Hilton Als fail to illuminate this enormously complicated and unsettling subject....Looking at the photographs of the broken, burned and mutilated victims in WITHOUT SANCTUARY--some of whom, themselves, undoubtedly committed atrocious crimes--the terrible truth, the only 'explanation' of lynching, is that given half a chance, too many men will act brutally."Allen, James is the author of 'Without Sanctuary Lynching Photography in America' with ISBN 9780944092699 and ISBN 0944092691.